DAIRY ANIMAL FEEDING AND FOOD SAFETY SYSTEMS IN PAKISTAN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
Published: November 21, 2011
By: Muhammad Abbas Shah and Muhammad Azam Kakar
Summary
Pakistan being its member as a developing country has already availed a grace period of ten years in 2005, to adopt and amend its rules to fulfill the requirements of WTO. There are several main agreements in this regard but the agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) is important and most relevant with the aim to protect human, animal and plant life and health from any risks, hazards or disease. The global trade is further expanding rapidly and significantly due to increase in consumer demands, education and awareness of the consumer, internationalization of food tastes and habits, development in food science and technology, improvement in transportation and cold chain linkages. In recent years potential risks have been reported to human health associated with the contamination of dairy feed with chemical or biological agents at international level, thus raising public concern about the safety of foods of
animal origin. These concerns have been further aggravated due to problems that have arisen with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), mycotoxins, dioxin contamination, outbreaks of food borne bacterial infections, as well as growing apprehension about veterinary drug residues and microbial resistance to antibiotics. These problems have drawn attention to dairy feeding practices within the livestock industry and have prompted health professionals and the feed industry to scrutinize food quality and safety problems that can arise in foods of animal origin as a result of animal feeding systems. The objectives of the present paper are to elaborate the existing procedures and legislation regarding the food /feed safety issues in Pakistan, to describe the potential hazards and safety procedures like HACCP, GMP and GHP etc. associated with food/feed production, along with recommendations to strengthen food/feed safety procedures in the country.
Keywords: feed, food, safety, toxins, food laws, WTO, SPS, Pakistan
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